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Hole punch on my S20 FE doesn't cover any content at all. The only things that are where the camera is in portrait mode is the notification row. Coming from a phone with a big notch that's also why I hate a notch above anything else, the big ones takes up so much space that there is only space for the symbol for like 3 notifications or something, nothing more. While with hole punch it's still a lot of space for them. In landscape, that I only really use in YouTube, it doesn't use the area where the camera is at all. For those small only camera notches, I for some reason notice them more than hole punch, don't know why. Especially if background there is not black. I disagree.

They do sometimes change the thumbnail I believe. Or I know some other YouTubers do so wouldn't surprise me if LTT did too.

There is also a lot of games that don't require online connection at start up, but I guess it depends on what games you want to play.

For speed, no, but just in case a drive fails, yes. If you ned lots of storage I would not go with any HDD lower than 8TB personally.

My laptop I use for school has OLED screen, it's little over 1 year old and haven' noticed any burn in, at least not yet, but it's only little over a year. With noting my school work don't use a single program all the time tho. Things I have done to hopefully limit the burn in: Auto hide task bar. Laptop has motion sensor via web cam so screen goes black 30 seconds if no motion. Maybe litte to fast as you don't have that on desktop, but you should have it short. Dark mode everything (I would have done this anyway)

But why would you do that? I don't get what your point is, if things on screen is too small for you, increase scaling. Problem solved. You confuse sending lower resolution signal to higher resolution screen with scaling in windows. They don't work the same way at all. If you set scaling to 125% in windows, it just tells everything to be 25% bigger but at the same output resolution. For example, if you have 200% on a 4k monitor and put an image to fullscreen, it will still render properly ar 4k, NOT 1080p and you will see it as 4k. And for example text, is vector graphics, they are still rendered at 4k when it comes to pixels, they are just larger. Other GUI elements too, they aren't images with pixels, they are still rendered at 4k, just bigger. Same thing with icons or whatever, they are still rendered at the 4k resolution. They aren't vector so conversion happens, but it's not from a lower resolution image that gets stretched, it's from a higher resolution image that gets converted to something lower. Or when it comes to games, games see your screen as a 4k screen just fine, no matter if it's fullscreen or borderless mode. Exception is if a program is old or shitty made but that is less than 1% of programs. I know, that wasn't the point. My point is that I think 1440p is too low resolution for 32", and the next step up that manufacturers produce and is common is 4k. If 3k displays had existed and been common, maybe I would have said that should be the minimum at 32" but it isn't, so 4k it is. I know, I used "blurry" as in "less sharp", and when it does when it gets less more pixelated. See what I wrote above, that is not how scaling in windows works. Setting scaling to 200% does not mean text is rendered at 1080p. Text is basically vector graphics and is simply told to be bigger, it's still native 4k output. If you will you can think of it as increasing font in word, it doesn't start getting blurry/pixelated because it's vector graphics and output resolution is still the same. Text on my 4k 32" is way shaper than 1440p or 1080p 32", no matter what I set the scaling to. Doesn't matter if it's 125% or 250% or whatever. If you still don't understand what I mean, you should really go and look up from other sources for an explanation you understand, because what you are saying is just false.

That's not how that works, like at all. Why the hell would you have to increase the distance?! That's not how scaling works, scaling doesn't stretch the resolution or anything, it just says that things should be X size bigger. If you have 150% scaling on a 4k display, the overall resolution doesn't change, things are just told to be bigger. There can be little issue with some old programs but 99%+ of cases its not an issue. After having used higher ppi displays like 1440p 27" or 32" 4k, no way I am going back to 1080p 24", because the pixel density. That's an subjective opinion tho. I will also say that as long as you have normal eyesight, something having twice the pixel density does not necessarily mean you have to have 200% scaling. When you have higher ppi it's easier to read smaller text, compared to 1080p 24" because the text is less blurry. I am running 125% scaling on 4k 32" and don't find it any harder to read than 1080p 24" That is if you have normal eyesight and not poor eyesight tho, if you have that, you can probably do with 150%.

I would recommend sticking with 27" for 1440p because pixel density. I wouldn't go 32" without it being 4k. The increased pixel density is very noticeable. If things are too small you can just increase scaling in windows.

1440p 27". For 32" I would go to 4k. Because pixel density.

Personally I would say that your GPU is powerful enough for 1440p, so I personally would go for that. Also, my experience is that monitors can last longer than 3-4 years.

The definition of "doesn't matter" is basically that it's not important. And it's not absolute statement, it's relative. I said it doesn't matter for people that don't want issues in the first place or having to make effort to avoid them. And that's true, it's not important for those people what exactly creates the issue when they don't have to think about it if they choose another OS. So yes it doesn't change but it obviously doesn't mean what you think it does.

A while ago I helped another person with a NVMe SSD that was dropping out on Discord. SSD had full health. With that person the SSD was in secondary m.2 slot. After some testing, the conclusion were that his mobo had gotten issues with its chipset that caused it. He got the mobo replaced and the issue was gone. Just leaving that info here as it might be useful. In his case it was connected to the chipset, but in yours it's not, so it's not the exact same issue but still.

When I got a new PC in 2020 I sold the old PC because I knew I could get more for it then than I would if I waited 5 more years before doing so.

Hole punch > Bigger bezel > Big notch.

Depends what perspective you take. If you take the perspective of trying to figure out how to fix the issue, then yes. If you take the perspective of you don't want issues in the first place and don't want tho think about how to avoid them, then no, it actually doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

Even if you don't feel you have issues with Linux, it doesn't mean others don't. I for sure have had issues every time I tried it. Also, if an issue is Linux itself, or if it is with some third party software on Linux that the user needs: It doesn't really matter for the user. It's still an issue on Linux that they don't get on the alternative.

Don't get a DRAM-less SSD. I have a PCIe 3 NVMe SSD and I have had zero problem with heat without a heatsink, it's located between my GPU and CPU.

Look for monitors with higher nits of brightness. That is number one factor when you have problem with the room being too bright. It's more important than the monitor being matte or not.

There isn't much current benefit of PCIe 3 vs 4 SSDs, but I won't say for sure that it won't be some point in the future. I don't see any point having more SSDs just to have more SSDs. Just look at the price to storage ratio on 2 and 4 TB SSDs and get two of them, and then get additional ones if you actually need them because amount of storage.

AMD settings have a metrics overlay. It doesn't show FPS when not in games tho.

At least when I installed windows 11 not too long ago, I noticed by mistake that those things, TikTok and Facebook, was not actually installed. The icon was there. But when you clicked on it a little loading bar came up under the icon or something before it opened. At least my best guess is that they aren't actually installed, but they become installed when you click them. It's just guessing tho. Same, once they were removed on a new install they have never come back for me.

I don't know, but very very few people get them so it's logical if it's few places that still have them.

I have not expected that you show in the screenshot, no.

Reason why 4k YouTube can look better than 1080p YouTube on a 1080p monitor is not anything to do with the extra resolution, that gets lost. The reason is the higher bitrate.